Thursday, December 13, 2012

Training begins

Smoothies consisting of pond scum and other over priced supplements are surely a sufficient substitute for rest, balanced diet, hydration and actual time in the saddle. The burnt out(burn out has nothing to do with a lack of the above basics-of-general-good-health, right?) working man's training program. Friday Night Super Series domination is certain. Jagger's reign is over.

I just hired a coach too. Base road miles till March(10-12 hours weekly). Then ramp up with some tempo work(on the road) and then a few "throw away races" April/May. Peak for two weeks in June, then roll over and die and call it "a race season". Sounds like serious fun. I'm going to be SO SKINNY!!!

Need some time in the sub. My new(new) frame is in route via brown, and parts are being collected. Finding the fork is the last hurdle. Keep an eye out for a 2012 Marzocchi 55 RC3 ti with a straight steerer.

I love the banter! Hopefully with some serious dirt moving this winter/spring we can make llmt a little less pedally and a little more technical. Bigger and better jumps with a slower go around line, and a re-route to cut out the long pedaling section at the top. This will shake up the results a bit.

Mueller, it was awesome to see you throw down some quick times on that old Chameleon. I think it made a lot of people realize how slow they are on their $3k+ rigs. That being said, I will also be rocking a hardtail this year, though more updated than yours. Depending on how good a rider someone is and how you look at it, a hardtail could be an advantage in the forest. I think Cam will be rocking one as well.

Hard tail for suuuure, I've been riding exclusively squishy bikes for too long. That said Im going to keep pretending that Ill be getting something squishy as well, maybe an AM bike, maybe a DH bike. Probably neither. Sounds like a hard tail party is in order.

To Jim's comment about the lack of rough stuff, I want to take all of the rocks from the rock garden that is not really a rock garden and build up the "steep section" completely with rock armoring. This will be a major project but will help keep it from clay rutting and make it more techy in the wet. This is one of the reasons I want to make it mandatory for FNSD participants to show up and build! This will take a lot of labor.

awesome matt, i'll be there for that for sure, and jim! hopefully I will pull wires enough to stoke this years races on a newer ride! indeed though, it doesn’t matter so much on llmtn trail which bike you have, as much as your skill, or esp. in matt's case peddling ability!!!

btw I would really like to see the results if Finn Hopper or Max Hoffman are in town next summer, as the ranks would definitely change, even if lars or logan showed up. Finn on his butcher will pretty much shred most of us, and Max(even on his new v-10) will make us look paltry...

I think the FNSDS is the best thing going in Capitol Forest right now. The other big events are fun, and draw in regional riders which is cool and is culturally good for the forest. The FNSDS is especially great though, in that it is really good for our riding community to have a regular mtb race event that riders of all types can compete in here. If the FNSDS continues I am sure it will continue to grow, and draw and develop more and more talent out of Oly - or at the least give me an excuse to race in a Ride The Lighting shirt while the PA helps Slayer destroys my eardrums.

And yes, that pho rock garden in the flat(slightly uphill) section is lame. We need to transport those baby heads to somewhere steeper. Good call.

Instead of trying trying to find somewhere on the existing trail for a rock garden why not incorporate in to the reroute? It might take less effort, then again I've never "built" a rock garden so im sort of talking out of my ass.